“The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.”
Quote by Lewis Mumford
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Lewis Mumford
Historian and urban planner, known for his influential work on city planning and design, including the seminal work 'The City in History'. more
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